WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols, and of applications based on these components, for distribution at no charge to the public.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as "Apache HttpComponents Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache HttpComponents Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of a toolset of low level Java components focused on HTTP and associated protocols, and of applications based on these components; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache HttpComponents" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache HttpComponents Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache HttpComponents Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache HttpComponents Project:

Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk AT apache DOT org>

Sebastian Bazley <sebb AT apache DOT org>

Erik Abele <erikabele AT apache DOT org>

Ortwin Glück <oglueck AT apache DOT org>

Roland Weber <rolandw AT apache DOT org>

Ant Elder <antelder AT apache DOT org>

Paul Fremantle <pzf AT apache DOT org>

Asankha Perera <asankha AT apache DOT org>

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Erik Abele be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache HttpComponents, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache HttpComponents Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache Jakarta HttpComponents subproject; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the Apache HttpComponents Project be and hereby is tasked with the migration and maintenance of the codebase formerly known as Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient until it is obsoleted by the components of the Apache HttpComponents Project; and be it further

RESOLVED, that all responsibilities pertaining to the Apache Jakarta HttpComponents subproject and the former Apache Jakarta Commons HttpClient codebase encumbered upon the Apache Jakarta Project are hereafter discharged.